# 1964 in South Africa

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The following lists events that happened during 1964 in South Africa.

## Incumbents

* State President: Charles Robberts Swart.
* Prime Minister: Hendrik Verwoerd.
* Chief Justice: Lucas Cornelius Steyn.

## Events
### January

* 31 – The University of Port Elizabeth is established.

### February

* South Africa is suspended from the International Labour Organization.

### March

* 11 – South Africa withdraws from the International Labour Organization.

### June

* 5 – South Africa is expelled from the Universal Postal Union in Vienna.
* 12 – In the Rivonia Trial, Nelson Mandela's original 5-year sentence is extended to life sentence for high treason together with Denis Goldberg, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew Mlangeni, Elias Motsoaledi and Walter Sisulu.

### July

* 17 – Nelson Mandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace.
* 24 – John Harris, a schoolteacher, explodes a bomb at Park Station, killing 77-year-old Ethel Rhys and injuring 23 others.

### August

* 18 – The International Olympic Committee bans South Africa from the Tokyo Olympics on the grounds that its teams are racially segregated.

### November

* 6 – Vuyisile Mini is being hanged due to death penalty for treason together with Wilson Khayinga and Zinakile Mkaba.

### Unknown date

* The African National Congress establishes offices in Dar-es-Salaam.
* The Mahotella Queens are formed by producer Rupert Bopape in the Johannesburg studios of Gallo Record Company.
* The Munitions Production Board is formed in order to develop South African self-sufficiency in the manufacturing of arms.
* Neville Alexander is imprisoned on Robben Island.

### November

* The Little Rivonia Trial begins.

### December

* In the Little Rivonia Trial, sentence was introduced for another treason: Wilton Mkwayi received life sentence; Dave Kitson twenty years; Laloo Chiba eighteen years; John Matthews fifteen years and Mac Maharaj twelve years.

## Births

* 13 January – Laurette Maritz, golfer
* 21 January – Mark Gleeson (journalist), soccer commentator & journalist
* 24 February – Wendy Oldfield, singer
* 18 March – Yvonne Chaka Chaka, singer & businesswoman
* 5 April – Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, King of the abaThembu
* 15 April – André Joubert, rugby player
* 13 April – Colleen De Reuck, long-distance runner
* 16 May – Kobus Wiese, former rugby player & tv personality
* 18 May – Balie Swart, rugby player
* 10 June – Keketso Semoko, actress and producer
* 11 July – Gavin Hunt, football coach
* 20 July – Deon Lotz, actor
* 26 July – Pitso Mosimane, former football player & coach
* 3 August – Lucky Dube, reggae musician (d. 2007)
* 19 August – Hector Pieterson, schoolboy who was shot and killed in Soweto uprising (d. 1976)
* 4 September – Menzi Ngubane, actor (d. 2021)
* 1 October – Roger De Sa, former football player & coach
* 5 October – Masoja Msiza, actor and poet
* 3 November – Brenda Fassie, singer (d. 2004)
* 12 December – Ringo Madlingozi, musician

## Deaths

* 7 June – Charlie Llewellyn, first non-white South African test cricketer. (b. 1876)
* 6 November – Vuyisile Mini, South African anti-apartheid activist. (b. 1920)

## Railways
### Locomotives

* The South African Railways places the first of one hundred Class 5E1, Series 3 electric locomotives in mainline service, built by Union Carriage & Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal.

## Sports

* Papwa Sewgolum, an Indian golfer, wins the Dutch Open tournament for the third time.